James Howard Kunstler

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  • Bibliography:
    23 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 1983
  • Latest Book:
    January 2020
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Full Series List in Order

Union Grove, New York

1 - World Made by Hand (Mar-2008)
2 - The Witch of Hebron (Sep-2010)

Book List in Order: 23 titles

  • The Life of Byron Jaynes

  • An Embarrassment of Riches

    A picaresque novel of the American West in 1803. An historical comedy about two bumbling botanists sent into the southern wilderness by Thomas Jefferson to look for something that isn't there. A novel in the spirit of Lewis and Clark (who make came...

  • Blood Solstice

    Grover Graff, a reporter who specializes in investigating religious cults, discovers a link between the scattered pieces of the body of his best friend and the Children of Abraham, one of the cults he has been investigating...

  • The Halloween Ball

    What happens when four guys confront the enormity of being thirty? If it’s Sandy Stern, he worries about the fact that he’s a down-and-out artist about to lose both his apartment and his girl. If it’s Joel Harlowe, a materialistic drug dealer, ...

  • The Hunt

  • Thunder Island

  • Maggie Darling

    In this “wonderfully entertaining” novel, a famous domestic diva finds her perfect life falling to pieces (Candace Bushnell, author of Sex and the City).   She’s the goddess of hearth and home, America’s millionaire media maven of domest...

  • Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

  • World Made by Hand

    Union Grove, New York - 1

    In this “richly imagined” dystopian vision, mankind must find a way to survive as modern civilization slowly comes apart (O, The Oprah Magazine).   When Earth ran dry of oil, the age of the automobile came to an end; electricity flickered ou...



  • Big Slide

    "Big Slide," (116 pp.) by James Howard Kunstler, is a three-act play set in the autumn of an unspecified near-future year, at an Adirondack "great camp" where three generations of the Freeman family have taken refuge from New York and Boston during a...

  • The Witch of Hebron

    Union Grove, New York - 2

    Renowned social commentator and best-selling author James Howard Kunstler’s sequel to World Made by Hand, expands on his vision of post-oil society in America in this "suspenseful, darkly amusing story with touches of the fantastic in the mode of W...

  • A Christmas Orphan

  • The Flight of Mehetabel

    From WATER STREET PRESS President Kennedy is entertaining some now-forgotten head-of-state in the White House and eleven-year-old Jeff Greenaway and his best friend Bobby Schindler are in New York City entertaining themselves -- tossing water balloon...

  • Manhattan Gothic

    From WATER STREET PRESS A children’s story for grown-ups. “…amongst their own kind, children are the world’s most thoroughgoing skeptics.” But not eleven-year-old Jeff Greenaway. When his parents suddenly come into possession of hard-to-get...

  • A Clown in the Moonlight

    This comic romance is set at a small bohemian liberal arts college in Vermont. Embarking on his first teaching job in a longed-for idyllic New England country setting, Richie Schuster’s marriage to snarky and glamorous wife, Sally, soon goes up in ...

  • The Wampanaki Tales

    A mordant novel set in a summer camp for boys in the early 1960s, the days of President Kennedy, Mickey Mantle’s Yankees, doo-wop music on the radio, and boys gone feral in the New Hampshire woods. Boarding a magical Pullman train, Leon Blumberg an...

  • The Rise, Fall, and Redemption of Mooski Toffski Offski

    A children's book for grown-ups. Eleven-year-old Jeff Greenaway, budding Cold War comedian, connoisseur of Sabrett hot dogs, and scholar of horror movies, has a new obsession: classmate Wendy Waldbaum. So far, except for one wildly ill-timed declarat...

  • A History of the Future

    "A History of the Future" is the third thrilling novel in Kunstler’s "World Made By Hand" series, an exploration of family and morality as played out in the small town of Union Grove. Following the catastrophes of the twenty-first century--the p...

  • The Harrows of Spring

    From the renowned social critic, energy expert, and bestselling author James Howard Kunstler, "The Harrows of Spring" concludes the quartet of his extraordinary World Made By Hand novels, set in an American future of economic and political collapse, ...



  • A Safe and Happy Place

    “In the fall of 1967, a schlemiel named Don Bessemer from Short Pump, Virginia, got me pregnant. Well, okay, I got myself pregnant with his assistance. I fell for this superficial clod one rainy October afternoon when we were the only two patrons i...

  • The Law of the Jungle

    This fifth installment of the Jeff Greenaway novella series finds our eleven-year-old hero shipped off from Manhattan for the summer (as usual) to Camp Timahoe, near the town of Lost Indian, Vermont, in the summer of 1963. All seems normal at first w...

  • The Innocents

    The Innocents is a screenplay about the downfall of a Too-Big-To-Fail bankster set in Manhattan and an estate in rural Connecticut. The action centers on three teenagers and the malevolent family drama that parallels the financial wickedness on the W...

  • Johnny Appleseed

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James Howard Kunstler has published 23 books.

James Howard Kunstler does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Innocents, was published in January 2020.

The first book by James Howard Kunstler, The Life of Byron Jaynes, was published in May 1983.

Yes. James Howard Kunstler has 1 series.
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